Listed below are the dates and results for the 2006 FIFA World Cup qualification rounds for South America. 10 teams took part, all in a single group. The rules were very simple: the teams would play against each other in a home-and-away basis, with the four teams with most points qualifying to the 2006 FIFA World Cup. The fifth ranked team would have to play-off against the best team from Oceania, with the winner of this play-off also qualifying. For the first time, defending champions Brazil was required to go through the qualifying process and did not automatically qualify for the tournament.
The fifth-placed team then played the winner of the OFC qualifying group, Australia, in a home-and-away play-off. The winner of this play-off qualified for the 2006 FIFA World Cup finals.
The following four teams from CONMEBOL qualified for the final tournament.
There were 235 goals scored in 90 matches, for an average of 2.61 goals per match.
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Juan Pablo Sorín
Luis Cristaldo Limberg Gutiérrez
Roberto Carlos Robinho
Luis Fuentes Luis Antonio Jiménez Milovan Mirošević Reinaldo Navia
Freddy Grisales Frankie Oviedo Víctor Pacheco John Restrepo Elkin Soto.svg/1280px-Flag_of_Ecuador_(1900%E2%80%932009).svg.png){kind=small}
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Paolo Guerrero Andrés Mendoza Jorge Soto
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José Torrealba Gabriel Urdaneta1 goal
Fabricio Coloccini Andrés D'Alessandro César Delgado Luciano Galletti Kily González Lucho González Mauro Rosales Javier Saviola Javier Zanetti Julio César Baldivieso Gonzalo Galindo Roger Suárez Doyle Vaca Joselito Vaca Emerson Juan Luís Fabiano Juninho Rivaldo Zé Roberto Mark González Sebastián González Rodrigo Meléndez Arturo Norambuena Ricardo Francisco Rojas Marcelo Salas Moisés Villarroel Martín Arzuaga Sergio Herrera Edixon Perea Valencia Mario Yepes Giovanny Espinoza Iván Kaviedes Christian Lara Franklin Salas Carlos Tenorio.svg/1280px-Flag_of_Paraguay_(1990%E2%80%932013).svg.png){kind=small}
Julio César Cáceres Diego Gavilán Gustavo Morínigo Jorge Martín Núñez Nelson Valdez Salvador Cabañas Santiago Acasiete Claudio Pizarro Gustavo Vassallo Nelson Abeijon Paolo Montero Álvaro Recoba Mario Regueiro Cristian Rodríguez Adrián Romero Héctor González José Manuel Rey Leonel Vielma1 own goal
Hermán Solíz (against Ecuador) Gilberto Silva (against Uruguay) Luis Guadalupe (against Argentina) Alejandro Cichero (against Bolivia) José Manuel Rey (against Argentina)